The al-Amri campaign began with the journey of Egyptian scholars to the land of Sudan and their residence there, including the Azharite halls, such as the Hall of Knowledge and Influence, with intellectual considerations in Sudan for the pursuit of study and attainment.

The books of "Tabaqat" (biographical dictionaries) are the best to depict these reciprocal journeys for us, as they show us that the first to come to Egypt and migrate to it was Sheikh Mahmoud al-Arki, where he migrated to Egypt and received knowledge there and studied at Al-Azhar under two prominent Maliki scholars, Shams al-Din al-Laqqani and his brother Nasser al-Din al-Laqqani. It appears that his arrival in Sudan was in the fourth decade of the tenth Hijri century, because his teacher Shams al-Din al-Laqqani, under whom he studied, passed away in the year 935 AH. Sheikh Mahmoud al-Arki is considered the first to spread the sciences of Islamic religion and Arab culture in Sudan, as this Sheikh went to the White Nile region where, upon his arrival in that land, he found no school of sciences nor a Holy Quran in which Islamic sciences were taught. Wad Dhaif Allah says, when the Funj took control in Sennar, "I know that the Funj conquered the land of the west and overcame it, and there was no Quran." It is said that a man would divorce a woman and another would marry her in Sennar without a waiting period, until Sheikh Mahmoud al-Arki came from Egypt and taught people the waiting period and the "Sakka al-Bahr al-Abyad" (a term possibly referring to a specific religious practice or teaching related to the White Nile) and built a palace known as Mahmoud's Palace. Then he resided on Sennar Island and established about seventeen schools between al-Hassaniya and al-Yass, and was engaged in teaching jurisprudence. He also established "Khalawi" (religious schools) for memorizing the Holy Quran and teaching religious sciences, and he had more than thirteen schools between Khartoum and al-Kowh.

Scholars from Egypt in the second half of the tenth century. Then the influence of the Funj intensified and cast its shadow over Sudan, and the status of Islamic scholars emerged, and the books of "Tabaqat" mentioned many names.

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